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We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.
Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.
Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.
Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.
It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
So think long and hard about who you're spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time
It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.
If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, "Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long.".
For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.
We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.
Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.
As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.
Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.
As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable.
It's tiring to be asked the same questions all day long: 'What is Gangnam style?' and 'Teach me how to dance.'
I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.
Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.
My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death
A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar..., the answer is, as long as you live - that short.
From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.
When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.
Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.
It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir
Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.